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Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov has announced the planned launch of a new media project following the suspension of the Novaya gazeta newspaper, where he was editor in chief.
A former employee of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow has been handed a 14-year prison term in Russia for illegal drug trafficking after he was caught entering the country with medical marijuana he says was prescribed to him after back surgery.
A court in Moscow has replaced the 18-month parole-like sentence handed to Kira Yarmysh, the press secretary of jailed anti-corruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny, to actual prison time, saying she violated the terms of her punishment when she fled the country.
Russian pop icon Filip Kirkorov had concerts canceled after accusing a state media boss of “humiliating” a singer who spoke out against the war in Ukraine. “The punishing of public personalities communicates that regular citizens should be afraid -- very afraid -- of protesting,” an analyst said.
Russia has added the Committee Against Torture, a nongovernmental organization founded in 2000 to advocate for investigations into allegations of torture, to its registry of foreign agents.
One of four defendants in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine in 2014 declared his innocence in a video aired on June 10 in the courtroom in the Netherlands where he and three other defendants were being tried in absentia.
A Russian court has issued an arrest warrant for Violetta Grudina, the former leader of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's team in the northwestern city of Murmansk, as authorities continue to crack down on those close to the Kremlin critic.
Officers of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) have detained the former prefect of Moscow’s Northern Administrative Precinct, Oleg Mitvol, as he tried to leave Russia on a flight from Moscow’s Vnukovo airport.
A group of Russian lawmakers have submitted a new bill that would further restrict citizens' right to hold peaceful demonstrations and protest rallies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin compared the war against Ukraine to Peter the Great’s conquest during the 18th century as the Russian leader on June 9 paid tribute to the tsar on the 350th anniversary of his birth.
Volkswagen is offering compensation to employees who voluntarily quit their jobs at a plant in Russia, the German automaker has said as sanctions related to the war in Ukraine take hold.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has slammed the death sentences that Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine say their top court handed down to two British nationals and a Moroccan for being "mercenaries" and fighting with the Ukrainian armed forces.
An artist in St. Petersburg who was arrested for using price tags in a city store to distribute information about Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has been forcibly committed to a psychiatric clinic for examination, a move that echoes a Soviet-era practice to silence dissidents.
A Moscow court has extended the pretrial detention of prominent Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was arrested for allegedly spreading false information about the Russian Army.
The chief rabbi of Moscow, Pinchas Goldschmidt, has left Russia after he refused a request from state officials to publicly support Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, his daughter-in-law says.
Russia's Interior Ministry has added Vladimir Milov, an associate of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, and well-known writer Dmitry Glukhovsky to the federal wanted list.
Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov, editor in chief of the website Agentura.ru, which focuses on the activities of Russia's secret services, says he has been added to the country's wanted list.
The popular Russian television station Dozhd, which was forced to suspend operations in March amid pressure linked to its coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, says it will resume operations from Latvia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been forced to cancel a trip to Serbia after some of its Balkan neighbors refused to open their airspace to the minister's plane over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Tens of thousands of Russians fled to Central Asia shorty after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. Some emigres are calling Central Asia their new "forever homes" while others mull a return home as they carefully watch events in Russia.
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